When one talks about Blu-ray discs, most of the time we would figure out that these are the medium of choice for Full HD movies in your living room, as well as the place where PS3 games are stored. However, it seems that Blu-ray discs could have a potentially far reaching influence rather than being limited to mere movies and video games. Social network giant Facebook has announced that they are venturing into building a prototype for a new data storage system which will make use of 10,000 Blu-ray discs, which are capable of stashing up to one petabyte of data, alongside the very real possibility of increasing that amount of space up to five times the original intended figure.
Facebook Looks At Blu-Ray Discs As Data Storage System Solution original content from Ubergizmo. 
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As you might have heard not too long ago, Facebook is rumored to be creating their own version of Flipboard called 
Princeton researchers did roll out a study last week, touting that social network giant Facebook could very well lose up to 80% of its users by the time our calendars hit 2015 all the way to 2017. It does sound credible from such an august educational institution, but no one is right all the time, yes? Facebook has struck back, where their data scientists decided to use the very same study’s silly “correlation equals causation” methodology of tracking Google search volume against Princeton, depicting that the higher learning institute would eventually lose all of its students by the time 2021 arrives. If both were to be true, we do wonder what kind of social network would Princeton students use between 2017 and 2020? Just a thought, that’s all.
